... The Small Cloud of Magellan (SMC) . ... Almost unknown to casual observers in the northern hemisphere, the southern sky contains two diffuse wonders known as the Magellanic Clouds. ... Jovian Aurora . ... These two recently released Hubble Space Telescope close-ups show the Northern and Southern lights ... on Jupiter. ... Closer To Beta Pic . ... Since the 1980s, astronomers have been pointing toward Beta Pictoris, a young, sun-like star a mere 50 light-years distant, as a likely example. ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

... Moon . ... Comets and Asteroids . Meteors and Meteorites . ... WeтАЩve become rather obsessed with meteor showers in recent months, and for good reason. ... The first meteor shower peaks around 11- 12 November too, so keep an eye out. ... On 11 November there will be a New Moon, so the night sky will not be flooded with moon light. ... Normally this is a relatively weak meteor shower with the meteors hitting the EarthтАЩs atmosphere at 65 km/s. Finally we will see a Full Moon on 25 November. ...

... Spacecraft . ... To space by cannon? Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ...

... January 25, 1998 . The Small Cloud of Magellan (SMC) . ... Explanation: Almost unknown to casual observers in the northern hemisphere , the southern sky contains two diffuse wonders known as the Magellanic Clouds . ... The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), pictured here, is about 250,000 light years away and contains a preponderance of young, hot, blue stars indicating it has undergone a recent period of star formation. ... About APOD > . ...

Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ... Sojourner" on Mars, its top . ...

... Container Widgets . ... A Layout container is created using: GtkWidget *gtk_layout_new( GtkAdjustment *hadjustment, GtkAdjustment *vadjustment ); . ... You can add and move widgets in the Layout container using the following two functions: void gtk_layout_put( GtkLayout *layout, GtkWidget *widget, gint x, gint y ); void gtk_layout_move( GtkLayout *layout, GtkWidget *widget, gint x, gint y ); . ... Fixed Container . ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... Spacecraft detects aurora and mysterious dust cloud around Mars . Although the source and composition of the dust are unknown, there is no hazard to MAVEN and other spacecraft orbiting Mars. ... MARS | ... NASA s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has observed two unexpected phenomena in the martian atmosphere: an unexplained high-altitude dust cloud and aurora that reaches deep into the martian atmosphere. ...

... The British consortium, currently led by Professor Gordon Bromage of the University of Central Lancashire , includes the Universities of Keele , Nottingham and Southampton , the Open University and Armagh Observatory and will be joining the other partners in the SALT project, from South Africa, Poland, Germany, USA and New Zealand. ... SALT Dome . ... The SALT project is managed by a team based at the SALT Headquarters at Sutherland and South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town. ...

... Space Contents 1-2 YEAR 3-4 MONTH 5-6 DAY 7-8 BLANK 9-12 N (THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE aa DAILY VALUE ) 13-15 BLANK 16-19 S (THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE aa DAILY VALUE ) 20-22 BLANK 23-26 M1 (HALF DAILY VALUE OF aa INDICES FOR THE GREENWICH DAY ) 27-29 BLANK 30-33 M2 (SECOND HALF DAILY VALUE OF aa INDICES FOR GREENWICH DAY ) 34-36 BLANK 37-38 CC_OR_K (QUIET DAYS CLASSIFICATION) 39-41 MONTHLY MEAN DATA: Loacated after the last day of the month. ...

... 2) Dipartimento di Astronomia e Scienza dello Spazio, Universit di Firenze, Largo E. Fermi, 5, I-50125 Firenze, Italy . ... We present sensitive high resolution near infrared (NIR) broad band (J, H, and K) observations of a sample of 31 Star Forming Regions (SFRs) which contain H2O and OH maser sources. The observations are aimed at the detection and characterization of Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) which may be the source of excitation of the maser emission. ...

. True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . Images show regions used to extract spectra . Regions with red strikes are excluded . Background was subtracted from a region around or close to the SNR. Back to G263.5-02.7 Index . Chandra Supernova Remnant Catalog . Main Page | Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR .

... This artist's impression shows the remarkable planetary system around the Sun-like star HD 10180 five planets and evidence for two more. ... Richest Planetary System Discovered . ... This remarkable discovery also highlights the fact that we are now entering a new era in exoplanet research: the study of complex planetary systems and not just of individual planets. ... The newly discovered system of planets around HD 10180 is unique in several respects. ...

... We computed the permanently shadowed areas and temperatures inside the craters for the variation of the position of the lunar pole of rotation with respect to the ecliptic pole with a period of 18.6 years. ... According to our results, the total permanently shadowed area in the polar craters of the Moon is equal to 50428.7 km2, or 0.13% of the total area of the lunar surface [3]. ... The area of permanently shaded part of a crater makes 59 % from all area of a crater [3]. ...

M17 is a gaseous nebula of ionized hydrogen, known as an H II region. It is very low in the southern summer sky for northern hemisphere observers and is a little less than 0.5 degrees in overall size. This image is an R-band (Red) image in which contains the principle emission lines of hydgrogen.

T H E AU S T R A L I A T E L E S C O P E C A M PA I G N T O S T U DY SOUTHERN CLASS I METHANOL MASERS M.A.Voronkov (ATNF), K.J.Brooks, A.M.Sobolev, S.P.Ellingsen, A.B.Ostrovskii, J.L.Caswell contact: Maxim.Voronkov@csiro.au Introduction Class I methanol masers (e.g. 9.9 , 25, 104 GHz ) Maser spots are spread around the protostar location Avoid strong infrared ... This fact supports the idea that some class I masers reside in the interface regions of outflows. ...

... GCN 8471 | ... TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8516 SUBJECT: GRB 081102: MASTER refind and final results DATE: 08/11/11 15:50:10 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.Parkhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh Ural State GCN Circ 8470, Lipunov et al., ...

... The Russian TESIS/ CORONAS-PHOTON Solar Observatory, which has been working in orbit since January 30th, 2009, has photographed one of the most important events in the build up to the upcoming solar cycle - the formation of our star's new southern belt of activity. The first magnetic fields of the new cycle in the southern hemisphere appeared on the Sun's surface on May 23-24th. ... The belt of activity is one of the primary concepts, characterizing the solar cycle. ...

... This page provides some context for the Heritage release of the HST/ACS 14th anniversary images of what John A. Graham first positively identified as "a peculiar southern ring galaxy". The image data displayed below show the environment around the RN nuclear ring galaxy VV785 (a.k.a. AM0644-741, the Lindsay-Shapley Ring, or Graham's Ring Galaxy) in ground-based radio, IR, and optical wavelengths. ... Above are the SHASSA Continuum (left) and H-alpha images of the field around the ring galaxy. ...

... The ODFs are generated with scisim-2.1. 1.1 scisimsimple This test ODF contains one X-ray source (1 keV, broadened with a 20 eV Gaussian), and several optical sources. The ODF was generated using the default con guration modes for all of the XMM instruments as provided by SciSim. 1.2 scisimquad This test ODF is an observation of four point sources with an incident angle of 0.05 degrees and positioned in a square. ... All instruments are in the default con guration mode as provided by SciSim. ...